From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 25 09:29:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA24302 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 09:29:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.zilker.net (jump-x2-0130.jumpnet.com [207.8.61.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA24275 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 09:29:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marquard@zilker.net) Received: (from marquard@localhost) by localhost.zilker.net (8.8.8/8.8.3) id LAA09320; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 11:29:03 -0600 (CST) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPv6 References: From: Dave Marquardt Date: 25 Jan 1998 11:28:30 -0600 In-Reply-To: Tom's message of "Sat, 24 Jan 1998 13:25:36 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: <85zpkk1n0h.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.17/XEmacs 19.16 - "Lille" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Tom writes: > Also some organizations have wasted a lot of space, probably because > they aren't willing to re-allocate address space. For example, IBM has > 9/8. I really doubt that IBM has 16 million hosts on the Internet, even > with their Advantis Internet Service. Also, most of IBM is firewalled and > can only reach the net via a proxy server! So IBM is giving out perfectly > good 9/8 addresses to workstations that only can reach the Internet via a > proxy server in some other non-9/8 block! I work at IBM, so I can speak to this a little. IBM also used to have lots of class B networks, and they've been giving them up and using 9/8. 32/8, as mentioned elsewhere, is also owned by IBM, and seems to be used by Advantis, or IBM Global Network, or whatever they call themselves these days. Currently IBM uses socks and HTTP proxies, but it's conceivable that someday IBM might start using more modern firewalls, that would allow the 9 addresses out to the Internet directly. -Dave